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Naval Training Center Orlando is a former United States Navy training installation located in Orlando, Florida. It was originally established in 1940 as Orlando Army Air Base, a World War II advanced flight training base for the United States Army Air Corps, later United States Army Air Forces, that was also used earlier in the war for coastal patrols until the turnover of the coastal patrol mission to maritime patrol aircraft of the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard and civilian aircraft of the Civil Air Patrol. Its airfield, the present day Orlando Executive Airport, was returned to the control of the City of Orlando at the end of World War II while the remaining base infrastructure located north of Florida Highway 50 was later used after 1947 as Orlando Air Force Base, a United States Air Force installation conducting ground technical training and ground-launched missile training for a number of USAF specialities, and headquarters facilities for various USAF commands and agencies until the base was transferred to the U.S. Navy in late 1968. ==Overview== Orlando AFB-''cum''-NTC Orlando was located just north of Florida Highway 50, directly north of the present day Orlando Executive Airport. Access through the main gate was on Corrine Drive at the intersection with Bennett Drive. An additional gate was located in the northeast corner of the base on Lakemont Avenue and provided access to the cantonment area containing USAF Hospital Orlando (until 1968)-''cum''-Naval Hospital Orlando (until 1999), as well as access to and from the adjacent city of Winter Park. Orlando AFB was located approximately eight miles north of McCoy Air Force Base (formerly Pinecastle AFB), a second USAF installation that was also located in Orlando. Orlando AFB was inactivated as a U.S. Air Force installation on 31 December 1967 and jurisdiction transferred to the United States Navy effective 1 Janunary 1968, although the last major USAF unit was not inactivated on the station until June 1970. The last minor USAF organization, the USAF Liaison Office to the Florida Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, continued to remain as a tenant activity on the subsequent U.S. Navy installation until its relocation to McCoy AFB in 1971. On 1 January 1968, the installation was renamed by the Navy as Naval Training Center Orlando, and became the newest of three Naval Training Centers, conducting initial enlisted recruit training (e.g., "boot camp") along with extant facilities NTC Great Lakes, Illinois and NTC San Diego, California. From 1968 until October 19, 1994, NTC Orlando was also the sole location for providing recruit training for female enlisted personnel. In addition to recruit training, NTC Orlando also conducted selected enlisted apprenticeship and technical school training, as well as nuclear power training for both officers and enlisted personnel until late 1999, when it was closed per a 1993 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission decision. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Naval Training Center Orlando」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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